MALE FEMALE
ATUM
SHU TEFNUT
(The Air) (The water)
GEB NUT
(The earth) (The sky)
ASARU ASET SUTUKH NEBT-HET
(Osiris) (Isis) (Set) (Nephthys)
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According to the people of Annu... (Heliopolitans). Atum emerged from thge chaotic waters of Nun and then produced all the Neteru without the benefit of a mate. His son Shu. The neteru of the air, was the result of a divine sneeze.
The people od HEYTAHKA (Memphites) One upped the people of Annu by declaring NETER ptah , the father of Atum.
The people of KHEMENNU (Hermopolitians) and the people of Wa-Set (Thesbans) shared Amun. As a Major divine force.
In some instances, However the ancient Egyptians greatly influenced in their definition of divinty by the movements of Sun, Moon and the Stars.
For ex....... As the ancient Egyptians observed the daily movement of the Sun, they knew that the Sky Netert swallowed the sun at night, and gave birth to it in the morning. Depending on where she lived.
The woman called the sky goddess Hat-Hor (Hathor- The Divine Cow).
These Neteru were equated with the Milky Way. During the third millenium BCE. in that era.
During the Spring and Fall Equinoxs, The Milky Way arched acrossed the mid-section of the sky. Touching the earth at the Exact points where the Sun appeared to rise and Set.
Therefore, on those days , the Sun actually appeared to set into and emerge from it's Mother The Milky Way.
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